Two teams of researchers have made significant progress toward proving the black hole stability conjecture, a critical mathematical test of Einstein’s theory of general relativity.
Even with no one in charge, army ants work collectively to build bridges out of their bodies. New research reveals the simple rules that lead to such complex group behavior.
New algorithms show how swarms of very simple robots can be made to work together as a group.
The Navier-Stokes equations describe simple, everyday phenomena, like water flowing from a garden hose, yet they provide a million-dollar mathematical challenge.
The mathematician Richard Schwartz finds the hidden depth lurking in simple mathematical puzzles.
Two mathematicians prove that under certain extreme conditions, the Navier-Stokes equations output nonsense.
A famously difficult mathematical problem resisted solution for over 40 years. Mathematicians have finally resolved it by following an intuition that links number theory to physics.
An eminent mathematician reveals that his advances in the study of millennia-old mathematical questions owe to concepts derived from physics.
To efficiently analyze a firehose of data, scientists first have to break big numbers into bits.